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  • Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3 arrived in Japan on the 4th of March, 2000, not as a follow-up to anything familiar, but as a launch title for an entirely new machine…
  • Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution arrived in arcades in 2004 carrying a premise that sounded almost too good to be true. Characters from Street Fighter II, Street…
  • Suikoden TacticsSuikoden Tactics arrived on the PlayStation 2 in late 2005, and it carried a quiet distinction: it was the first game in the long-running Suikoden series to…
  • Hyper Street Fighter IICapcom released Hyper Street Fighter II in 2003 to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Street Fighter series. The game arrived on PlayStation 2 as a…
  • Super Street Fighter II TurboIn April 1994, the arcade cabinet for Super Street Fighter II Turbo began spinning coins in Japan. Game Machine listed it as the second most successful table…
  • Silent Hill: OriginsSilent Hill: Origins opens on a lonely road, where trucker Travis Grady swerves to avoid hitting a girl who is not really there.
  • SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosSNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos arrived in arcades in 2003 as the dream matchup fans of two rival fighting game giants had been waiting for.
  • Street Fighter Alpha AnthologyCompleting every game in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is the only path to its deepest title: Hyper Street Fighter Alpha.
  • Suikoden IVSuikoden IV arrives at an unusual place in a beloved series: set roughly 150 years before the events of the original Suikoden, it asks players to forget…
  • Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection landed on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2005, offering players a vault of arcade history in a single package.
  • Silent Hill 3Silent Hill 3 dropped onto PlayStation 2 shelves in May 2003, and from its first moments it placed a 17-year-old girl named Heather Mason in a nightmare she…
  • Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 arrived in arcades in the summer of 2001, asking a question that fighting game fans had argued about for years…
  • Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VIIDirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII arrived in 2006 as something nobody expected from Square Enix: a third-person shooter set inside one of gaming's most…
  • Silent Hill 2Silent Hill 2 opens with James Sunderland standing at a roadside rest stop, staring into a fog-covered valley. He has received a letter from his wife, Mary.
  • Silent Hill: Shattered MemoriesSilent Hill: Shattered Memories asks you a question before it lets you play. Dr. Michael Kaufmann sits across from you in a therapist's office and wants to…
  • Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike arrived in arcades in May 1999, and almost nobody cared. The game sold modestly, drew mixed reviews, and landed during a…
  • Final Fantasy X-2Final Fantasy X-2 arrived in Japan in 2003 as something the series had never attempted: a direct sequel. Every numbered Final Fantasy before it told a…
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty reached North American shelves on the 13th of November 2001. Hyper Magazine had already named it the most anticipated…
  • Final Fantasy XFinal Fantasy X shipped in Japan in 2001 and sold more than 2.14 million units on its first day alone, including 1.4 to 1.5 million pre-orders.
  • Final Fantasy XIIFinal Fantasy XII arrived in March 2006 carrying five years of development behind it, a record that once earned it a Guinness World Record for longest…
  • Silent Hill 4: The RoomSilent Hill 4: The Room begins with a man who cannot leave his own home. Henry Townshend has been locked inside his apartment for five days, cut off from the…
  • Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (video game)Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law arrived on store shelves on the 8th of January 2008, priced at around thirty dollars. That budget price point was deliberate.
  • Namco × CapcomNamco x Capcom arrived in Japanese game shops on the 26th of May 2005, carrying inside it nearly one hundred characters drawn from two of the largest video…
  • Star Wars: The Force UnleashedStar Wars: The Force Unleashed opens with a small child wrenching Darth Vader's lightsaber from his grip. Vader kills the boy's father and takes him as a…
  • Suikoden VSuikoden V arrived on the Sony PlayStation 2 in 2006 as the fifth and final main installment in Konami's long-running Suikoden series.
  • The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation DividedCauldron HQ began work on a historical shooter set during the American Civil War in 2006. Activision Value partnered with The History Channel to publish the…
  • Fate/stay nightFate/Stay Night began not as a game but as a story Kinoko Nasu wrote in college with no particular destination in mind. He only completed what would become…
  • Tetsujin 28-goTetsujin 28-go arrived in 1956, the creation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and it asked a question that would echo through decades of Japanese popular culture: what…
  • Final Fantasy XIFinal Fantasy XI launched in Japan on the 16th of May 2002, asking players to share a single online world with strangers who spoke different languages and…
  • Suikoden IIISuikoden III arrived on the PlayStation 2 in 2002 with an idea that was genuinely strange for its era: what if a war story had no heroes and no villains…